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Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

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Hundreds of children who were taken from Donbas to Russia are stuck in the Russian orphan system. Investigation of Important Stories and Verstka

19 April

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Анна Рыжкова

How hundreds of Donbas children ended up in the Russian orphan system

An investigation by IStories

23 November

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Dmitry Velikovsky

How Russian Parliamentary Leader Sergey Mironov and His New Wife Adopted a Child Kidnapped from Ukraine and Changed Her Identity

IStories and Conflict Intelligence Team analyzed the electoral lists of DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya Oblasts and found Kremlin-linked officials, a mobilized soldier, and people involved in war and corruption crimes

28 August

Sonya Savina, Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Who Is Russia Pushing on Ukraine’s Annexed Territories’ Sham Elections?

IStories found almost 2.5 thousand orphans who may have been forcibly deported from Ukraine to Russia. Here’s how the authorities kidnap Ukrainian children and try to raise them as Russians

31 May

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

To Kidnap and Russify

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The Case of Russian Censorship

IStories found out who and why works for Russia’s main censor

2 March

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Rina Nikolaeva, Alisa Kuznetsova

Faces of Censorship

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The Case of Russian Censorship

Who found themselves in Roskomnadzor, the main Russian censor’s, sights, and why: potential “foreign agents”, opinion leaders, the media, tech giants, messaging apps and those close to powerful people. Enemies are blocked, while loyalists are saved from unflattering publications

8 February

Alesya Marokhovskaya, Polina Uzhvak, Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Sonya Savina, Rina Nikolaeva

The All-Seeing State Eye

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The Case of Russian Censorship

Roskomnadzor plans to arrange total surveillance of the entire Russian-speaking internet using artificial intelligence. Is it possible?

8 February

Alesya Marokhovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Sonya Savina, Editors, Polina Uzhvak, Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Inside the Censorship Machine

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The Case of Russian Censorship

Russia’s main censor — Roskomnadzor — secretly monitors publications critical of Russian authorities on the internet. They generate reports that they then send to the security forces. What does it mean for Russian citizens?

8 February

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Polina Uzhvak, Alesya Marokhovskaya, Sonya Savina, Anastasia Korotkova, Rina Nikolaeva

How Roskomnadzor Protects Putin's Power

They are offered a salary of 300,000 rubles per month

12 July

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Russia Began Recruiting the Unemployed to Send to War

IStories and Novaya Gazeta analyzed crime statistics, and also studied with the help of neural networks what pro-state media and media, recognized as foreign agents, write about migrants in order to debunk popular myths about non-residents

23 November

Alesya Marokhovskaya, Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

How Propagandists Incite Hatred towards Migrants, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs Accuses “Foreign Agents” of Doing So